The Writer's Almanac from Friday, January 5, 2007 Pandora by Kelley Jean White, from Body Language. © The Library of America ORIGINAL AUDIO - 2007 ORIGINAL TEXT - 2007 It's the birthday of the poet W. D. (William DeWitt) Snodgrass, born in Wilkinsburg, Pennsylvania (1926). He started writing poetry at a time when the poets T.S. Eliot and Ezra Pound had persuaded most poets writing in English that poetry should be full of imagery and symbols and allusions to mythology, but that it shouldn't contain any obviously personal details.
The Writer's Almanac from Friday, January 5, 2007
The Writer's Almanac from Friday, January 5…
The Writer's Almanac from Friday, January 5, 2007
The Writer's Almanac from Friday, January 5, 2007 Pandora by Kelley Jean White, from Body Language. © The Library of America ORIGINAL AUDIO - 2007 ORIGINAL TEXT - 2007 It's the birthday of the poet W. D. (William DeWitt) Snodgrass, born in Wilkinsburg, Pennsylvania (1926). He started writing poetry at a time when the poets T.S. Eliot and Ezra Pound had persuaded most poets writing in English that poetry should be full of imagery and symbols and allusions to mythology, but that it shouldn't contain any obviously personal details.